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(AP) SPEARSVILLE, La. Two fifth-graders had sex on a classroom floor while two others fondled each other in the classroom, according to a teacher at Spearsville High School in Louisiana.

Union Parish Superintendent Judy Mabry would say only that the allegations were being investigated; Principal Frank Futch said the incident was not indicative of how the school is run.

First-year teacher Michael Walker, who teaches fifth- through eighth-grade English, said three students were either expelled or sent to an alternative school and two others got detention.

Students at the kindergarten through 12th grade school are unruly, disrespectful and rarely disciplined, Walker said."They cuss at the teachers and throw things at them, and nothing is done," Walker said. "There was even one student who grabbed a teacher in the butt and nothing was done. The students run the school."

Walker said teachers learned Wednesday about the incident, which allegedly occurred during an assembly Tuesday to talk about a 15-year-old student accused of stabbing another student to death over the weekend.

The assembly was for sixth- through 12th-grade students. Fifth-gradestudents were not told about it, he said. But one class of about 15 fifth-gradestudents that routinely moves from a portable building to a main buildingclassroom during the second hour of the school day was unattended onTuesday.

"The teacher thought it was a normal day and sent the kids to secondhour," he said. "She didn't know the teacher that would normally be in there wasstill at the assembly."

The students were alone for about 30 minutes.

Teachers began to hear rumors around school Wednesday and by the end of the school day, the students involved had confessed.

"This is one incident and everyone is making a big deal out of it," Futch said. "I never had a teacher complain to me, but I have heard them complain to eachother.

"Sheriff Bob Buckley said charges are likely. "I have zero tolerance fordrugs, violence or anything like that that goes on in school," he said.

First, where did the drugs come in? But I digress. A list of school activities that "everyone is making a big deal" of;

sex in a classroom

unruly

undisciplined

cussing at teachers

throwing items at teachers

grabbing a teacher's "butt"

and

a 15 year old student accused of stabbing another student over a weekend

Instead of having a "counseling session" in place of class, maybe they should have a prison counselor speak to them just before lock down since that is their future. Might as well beat the Christmas rush.

Oh, and send Frank "no big deal" Futch with them. I don't know if Futchrhymes with butch now, but it will. Good thing his name isn't Fitch.

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